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YORK — Anthony Bavuso was back in the York County Poquoson Circuit Court Thursday as a judge heard arguments in his most recent lawsuit against the county's Board of Supervisors. Bavuso has been in a legal battle with the county since the supervisors denied his request for a special use permit so that he could have an oyster farm on his property in York Point. On Thursday, Bavuso's attorney, Scott L. Reichle, argued that the county zoning ordinance that requires a special use permit for oyster farming violates the Virginia Right to Farm Act. The act says, "No locality shall adopt any ordinance that requires that a special exception or special use permit be obtained...

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YORK — Anthony Bavuso was back in the York County Poquoson Circuit Court Thursday as a judge heard arguments in his most recent lawsuit against the county's Board of Supervisors.Bavuso has been in a legal battle with the county since the supervisors...

In the earliest days of the American republic, Virginia mounted the most rigorous and vocal defense of individual liberty and personal privacy. Such provisions are prominent in the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and it was Virginians who authored and...

RICHMOND — They canned his name for a health-care initiative, changed the name of his economic development fund, whacked his effort to expand pre-school — all in all, the governor had a tough time in the General Assembly this year.
But it wasn't as...

Legislation meant to force Virginia's attorney general to back state laws in federal court, which was sponsored by Peninsula Del. Brenda Pogge, narrowly failed in the state Senate Monday.
House Bill 1573 took up a long-simmering fight between the General...

Looking at the money state Senators have raised since their last elections hints at some interesting politics going on -- though much of it, confoundingly, is out around Roanoke.
And that could be a sign the Democrats are going to pushing flat out to try...

No pensionWho was the convicted ex-governor's supervisor ? The citizens of Virginia were and are. He was elected by the citizens. He was convicted by the citizens. He was paid by the citizens. The citizens with that conviction, according to statute...

March 2009: Star Scientific lets Bob McDonnell's gubernatorial campaign use its jet (leased to it by company chief executive Jonnie R. Williams Sr.) for two trips, together worth more than $10,800.October 2009: Star lets McDonnell use its plane two more...

When it comes to keeping an eye on ethics, Virginia legislators know who to rely on: themselves.
They say they eke out a living in public service with a near-poverty-level salary — but they get tens of thousands of dollars in allowances they don't have...

Thank you for finally stating the obvious truth in your Dec. 9 editorial, "For women's health."
When the Republicans rammed through the new women's health clinic regulations, it was never about women's health and safety. It was always...

GLEN ALLEN – The State Board of Health voted Thursday to forge ahead on a lengthy review that may ultimately roll back building codes and other abortion clinic regulations ushered in during former Gov. Bob McDonnell’s administration.
The vote was 13-2,...

When Republican leaders in Virginia ushered through strict regulations targeting women clinics during the administration of former Gov. Bob McDonnell, they fully intended to stop abortion in the commonwealth.
They framed the new rules as an effort to...

One of Virginia's most senior legislators, state Sen. John Watkins, R-Powhatan, has decided not to seek re-election.
Watkins has served in the state Senate in 1998 and was a member of the House of Delegates from 1982-1998.
“For 34 years, Senator John...

A civil liberties group is pressing for more information about an agreement between five local police departments to share telephone data collected during criminal investigations.The ACLU of Virginia filed an open-records request on Wednesday to Newport...

Missed story•Ed: The Daily Press, which prints many Washington Post stories, missed one Wednesday — one with a Newport News angle. It is details of a German sub wreckage discovered off Cape Hatteras, described by NOAA scientist Joe Hoyt, who...

One theme picked up in many of the polls on the Sen. Mark Warner-Ed Gillespie race is how certain most voters say they are about their choice -- so the Roanoke College Poll's look at the 19 percent of likely Virginia voters who told it they haven't...

The Virginia attorney general's office is asking for more information about a program by five Hampton Roads police departments to share telephone records gathered during criminal investigations.
A spokesman for Attorney General Mark Herring shed little...

For those worried about being caught on camera while driving through Hampton Roads, the Virginia State Police is still waiting to install software before firing up the license plate readers placed on the area's bridges and tunnels last year.
The State...

July 1, 2013: Tim Bostic, an English professor, and Tony London, a real estate agent, seek a marriage license from the Norfolk Circuit Court. But the clerk's office rejects their marriage license application on the basis that they are a same-sex couple....

RICHMOND — The jury is set in the federal corruption trial of Bob and Maureen McDonnell, and opening arguments are expected Tuesday.
The couple left the courthouse separately after a full day spent winnowing a field of 150 potential jurors to a panel...

RICHMOND – Bob and Maureen McDonnell both rested their cases Wednesday, leaving just a few steps to go before a jury decides their fate.
Closing arguments will likely come Friday, federal Judge James R. Spencer said, wrapping up a five-week case.
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